The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 488 - The Comeback Kids

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00:00:30.000 The Kansas City Chiefs mount a fourth quarter comeback to win the Super Bowl.

00:00:35.700 NFL ratings are up and Republican senators unexpectedly whip the votes to exonerate President Trump

00:00:42.020 and end impeachment once and for all.

00:00:43.820 We will examine the secret behind three dramatic comebacks.

00:00:48.080 Then, Democrats freak out just hours before the Iowa caucuses, happening in the next, right

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00:01:03.380 All of that and more.

00:01:04.140 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:05.020 And this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:06.240 Huge win in the Super Bowl, and I don't know anything about football, and I didn't watch

00:01:18.060 most of the Super Bowl, but there was a major win.

00:01:20.080 The biggest win of the Super Bowl was for us.

00:01:23.400 We all won the Super Bowl because of how apolitical it was.

00:01:29.220 The commercials, the show itself, everything about it was not dripping in leftism.

00:01:37.220 We will examine why that is, because it made the whole thing much, much more enjoyable.

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00:02:48.320 Big Super Bowl win yesterday, not just for the Chiefs, but for all of us.

00:02:53.900 The show, the game, the spectacle was not political.

00:03:01.400 It was not leftist.

00:03:03.340 It was not anti-American.

00:03:05.540 It was not protesting the American flag.

00:03:08.160 It was just football, okay?

00:03:10.940 There were ads for President Trump.

00:03:13.060 There was an ad for him, an ad for Bloomberg.

00:03:17.180 Mostly, other than that, it was free of politics.

00:03:20.040 The ads, they were fine.

00:03:22.660 They were kind of hokey.

00:03:23.480 They were kind of lame.

00:03:24.460 Well, that's pretty much the definition of television these days.

00:03:27.040 In the age of new media, almost everything on TV is a little hokey and a little bit lame.

00:03:31.200 But they were fine.

00:03:32.860 Why did the NFL avoid politics?

00:03:35.440 The NFL avoided politics because politics was destroying their ratings.

00:03:40.260 Leftism was destroying their ratings.

00:03:42.880 Colin Kaepernick and protesting the flag and all that stuff was causing people to tune out.

00:03:50.560 And so, the NFL made a big comeback by getting rid of their political advertising, their political themes.

00:03:58.640 The whole theme of today is comebacks.

00:04:01.180 Maybe the whole theme of this year is major comebacks.

00:04:04.280 There was one insane political ad that PETA, the animal rights organization, wanted to put out.

00:04:10.540 The NFL refused.

00:04:11.400 They said no.

00:04:12.060 We'll get to that one in a little bit because it's truly unbelievable.

00:04:15.640 So, you had two ads, basically, that were political.

00:04:18.260 Trump and Bloomberg.

00:04:19.880 Now, I want to take a look at those before we get to the biggest comebacks because those two ads show you completely different strategies, completely different approaches to politics.

00:04:30.240 And I think maybe why President Trump is going to have the advantage in November.

00:04:34.840 You know, yesterday was Groundhog Day, too.

00:04:36.620 So, we're all making predictions here.

00:04:38.240 I think if we're just judging by these two political ads, Trump is going to have the advantage in November.

00:04:44.620 So, here is the Trump ad.

00:04:46.240 It's a 30-second spot touting his criminal justice reform.

00:04:50.240 I'm free to hug my family.

00:04:58.200 I'm free to start over.

00:05:02.000 This is the greatest day of my life.

00:05:04.460 My heart is just bursting.

00:05:06.700 With gratitude, I want to thank President Donald John Trump.

00:05:11.900 Woo! 0.99

00:05:13.180 Woo! 0.99

00:05:13.500 Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

00:05:16.820 I'm Donald Trump, and I approve this message.

00:05:19.940 Okay, so that's the ad, right?

00:05:21.200 It's this woman who has been in prison for a long time for running a drug operation, and then Trump lets her out of jail. 0.72

00:05:30.040 And this is supposed to be a reason to vote for him in November.

00:05:32.700 I personally don't like this law.

00:05:35.020 I hated his criminal justice reform, also known as the jailbreak bill.

00:05:38.880 I think it's been dishonest.

00:05:41.160 I think it distorts justice.

00:05:44.160 It's my least favorite thing he's done, probably.

00:05:46.940 However, from a political perspective, this is a great ad for the Super Bowl.

00:05:53.740 The reason this is a great ad for the Super Bowl is because it does not irritate Trump's base enough to cause them not to vote for him. 0.99

00:06:02.200 I'm not going to not vote for Trump because he passed one kind of stupid law that doesn't really matter that much. 0.96

00:06:09.500 However, it's got a lot of crossover appeal. 0.99

00:06:12.260 It's got a ton of crossover appeal to independents and even some moderate Democrats.

00:06:16.860 So it's a big tent political ad for the Super Bowl, which is one of the biggest TV events of the year.

00:06:23.300 This ad also has an explicitly racial appeal.

00:06:27.100 So the Democrats obviously have been making race identity politics one of the most important aspects of politics for the past several decades.

00:06:35.720 When it comes to the Super Bowl, that is how they injected politics in it, right?

00:06:42.060 Colin Kaepernick said that he was protesting police brutality and racial discrimination in law enforcement.

00:06:47.920 He wasn't really protesting that.

00:06:49.120 He was really protesting the American flag, which we found out when he protested the Betsy Ross flag on a pair of Nike sneakers when he became the Nike spokesman.

00:06:57.460 So we know he's being dishonest, but at least what they were saying overtly was that these protests at the NFL were about racial discrimination.

00:07:04.680 And then what Trump is doing is appealing to an issue that is more or less about racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.

00:07:12.120 It's a very smart way to get in there and flip the script on the usual leftist identity politics.

00:07:19.540 Also, it's a broadly popular issue, so-called criminal justice reform or springing criminals from prison, especially if they're nonviolent drug offenders, which I think is a kind of meaningless term.

00:07:31.500 But nevertheless, these are not people who have gone in and murdered somebody.

00:07:35.680 They've dealt in drug crimes.

00:07:37.240 Of course, I think that all drug crimes are violent because they cause violence in the countries of origin, and they do actually cause violence in the United States.

00:07:44.340 However, neither here nor there, when people hear nonviolent drug offense, they want mercy for that person.

00:07:51.860 They want a little leniency.

00:07:53.680 It's a popular issue, so Trump goes for the popular issue.

00:07:56.340 Okay, compare that ad to the other political candidate's ad of the Super Bowl, the other billionaire from New York, Mike Bloomberg.

00:08:05.640 Here it is.

00:08:06.320 George started playing football when he was four years old.

00:08:10.340 He would wake up every Saturday ready for the game.

00:08:14.020 That became our life.

00:08:16.220 He had aspirations about going to the NFL.

00:08:19.600 On a Friday morning, George was shot.

00:08:22.940 George didn't survive.

00:08:23.800 I just kept saying, you cannot tell me that the child that I gave birth to is no longer here.

00:08:32.800 Lives are being lost every day.

00:08:36.120 It is a national crisis.

00:08:37.820 I heard Mike Bloomberg speak.

00:08:40.320 He's been in this fight for so long, he heard mothers crying, so he started fighting.

00:08:46.080 When I heard Michael was stepping into the ring, I thought, now we have a dog in the fight.

00:08:52.720 I know Mike is not afraid of the gun lobby.

00:08:54.860 They're scared of him.

00:08:55.940 And they should be.

00:08:56.620 Okay, it goes on a little bit.

00:08:59.380 You get the gist.

00:09:00.160 This is pretty much the polar opposite type of political ad as President Trump ran.

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00:10:21.280 So Bloomberg airs this ad, which is the opposite of the Trump ad.

00:10:27.300 Okay.

00:10:28.320 The Trump ad, criminal justice reform, very sympathetic looking person,

00:10:33.080 crossover appeal just ideologically, just broadly popular.

00:10:37.160 The Bloomberg ad is about taking your guns away.

00:10:41.720 It's about depriving Americans of their Second Amendment rights.

00:10:43.960 This is an extremely polarizing issue.

00:10:46.620 This may be the most polarizing issue in the entire country, and I am including abortion in that. 0.68

00:10:52.400 I'm including very controversial issues.

00:10:55.140 Gun rights, it's a unique issue.

00:10:57.940 Generally, it's a losing issue for the gun grabbers because even among Democrats,

00:11:03.880 there are some people who are very serious about keeping their Second Amendment rights.

00:11:07.560 I mean, this is a basic civil right guaranteed by our Constitution.

00:11:11.920 On the issue of gun rights, everybody knows exactly how they feel about it.

00:11:15.440 Okay.

00:11:15.660 There is no ambiguity whatsoever.

00:11:17.620 When you're talking about something like criminal justice reform,

00:11:20.600 people don't exactly know how they feel.

00:11:22.420 It's kind of a new issue that's being discussed.

00:11:25.140 On the right, you've got libertarians who tend to be a little more favorable toward leniency.

00:11:30.920 So there's even debate among the right.

00:11:32.840 The left tends to want more leniency in criminal justice.

00:11:35.080 So it's just, it's much more complicated.

00:11:37.520 It's much less black and white.

00:11:39.900 Even worse for Mike Bloomberg, who's trying to win the Democratic nomination,

00:11:43.460 and he's spending a lot of money doing it,

00:11:45.940 this alienates some of the earliest Democratic voters.

00:11:49.100 So what are the early Democratic states?

00:11:50.940 It's going to be Iowa.

00:11:52.060 That caucus is happening tonight.

00:11:54.000 Voters are going to the polls in Iowa right now.

00:11:56.540 You've got New Hampshire.

00:11:57.800 You've got Nevada.

00:11:59.480 You've got South Carolina.

00:12:00.900 Just those first four states are maybe the most pro-gun states

00:12:05.580 that you're going to get to in the presidential primary.

00:12:09.080 Why on earth would you lead with this polarizing issue? 0.96

00:12:13.860 It's just a loser of an ad.

00:12:16.720 It's an approach that just doesn't take into account practical politics.

00:12:22.220 Now, we need to take Mike Bloomberg seriously.

00:12:24.840 We need to take him seriously because he's got a lot of money.

00:12:29.180 There's a report out right now.

00:12:30.860 Mike Bloomberg so far has spent $200 million of his own money

00:12:34.320 in the first five weeks of his campaign.

00:12:37.280 Now, that matters.

00:12:38.680 It doesn't always matter how much money you spend.

00:12:40.680 That matters because the DNC is corrupt.

00:12:44.520 So the Democratic National Committee, we've known this for years,

00:12:48.220 it's run by party elites who stole the nomination from Bernie Sanders last time.

00:12:52.820 Bernie Sanders is rising up in the polls right now.

00:12:55.900 This time, the DNC is changing their debate rules to allow Mike Bloomberg in.

00:13:02.700 Mike Bloomberg would not qualify for the Democratic debates

00:13:05.280 unless the DNC changed the rules.

00:13:08.040 Now, other candidates have not qualified for the debates.

00:13:11.260 Tulsi Gabbard, Cory Booker, Julian Castro.

00:13:14.540 That didn't matter because those guys didn't have a ton of money to donate to the DNC.

00:13:19.020 Two days before he jumped into this presidential race,

00:13:22.100 Mike Bloomberg donated over $300,000 to the DNC specifically.

00:13:26.700 He just maxed out what you can give to the party.

00:13:29.600 And then, surprise, surprise, the DNC changes the rules to let him in.

00:13:33.220 Now, why is the DNC willing to do that?

00:13:35.520 Is it only for the money that Mike Bloomberg is paying?

00:13:38.080 Maybe that's part of it.

00:13:39.300 The other reason is because they're looking at Joe Biden and they're saying,

00:13:41.740 Joe Biden, who's the other old moderate guy in the race, he's collapsing.

00:13:46.000 He's falling apart.

00:13:46.980 We can't rely on him to be our nominee and to beat Trump in November.

00:13:50.780 So if Biden collapses, Mike Bloomberg is willing to take the moderate lane and he could do pretty well.

00:13:57.600 Now, President Trump is taking this seriously. 0.66

00:14:00.120 Even though Mike Bloomberg has not great political instincts and he aired this very dumb ad during the Super Bowl

00:14:08.480 that's not going to help him at all, he's got a lot of money, mayor of New York.

00:14:12.920 He knows how to work the system and he's got a workable system in the Democratic National Committee

00:14:17.680 that he can use to his advantage.

00:14:19.440 So President Trump did a pre-Super Bowl interview with Sean Hannity and he went straight after Bloomberg.

00:14:25.940 Now, pay attention to Trump's line of attack on Mayor Mike.

00:14:31.520 Michael Bloomberg.

00:14:33.500 Very little.

00:14:34.620 I just think of little.

00:14:35.920 You know, now he wants a box for the debates to stand on.

00:14:39.240 OK, it's OK.

00:14:40.480 There's nothing wrong.

00:14:41.360 You could be short.

00:14:43.000 Why should he get a box to stand on?

00:14:44.780 OK, he wants a box for the debates.

00:14:47.480 Why should he be entitled to that?

00:14:48.760 Really?

00:14:49.460 Then does that mean everyone else gets a box?

00:14:52.140 Does that mean everybody else going to get a box?

00:14:54.000 A little mini Mike?

00:14:55.280 He started calling him mini Mike.

00:14:58.080 He's going after Bloomberg's height.

00:15:02.920 We all know it's improper.

00:15:04.780 It's wrong.

00:15:05.340 It's mean.

00:15:05.800 It's crude.

00:15:06.260 It's childish.

00:15:07.060 But in terms of political attacks, this is probably one of Trump's best attacks.

00:15:11.340 First of all, Mike Bloomberg is quite petite.

00:15:14.700 I have met Mike Bloomberg.

00:15:15.900 I've been at events with Mike Bloomberg.

00:15:17.840 The websites that say that Mike Bloomberg is 5'8 or 5'9 or 5'10 are just simply lying.

00:15:23.800 He is not that tall.

00:15:25.640 He is a very petite man.

00:15:27.940 Now, that's fine.

00:15:30.100 There have been very impressive shorter people in history.

00:15:34.360 Napoleon Bonaparte being one example.

00:15:36.340 James Madison being another example.

00:15:38.540 However, the reason this attack was so smart is not because Trump is making fun of the guy

00:15:44.360 for being short.

00:15:45.160 It's because it's baiting Mike Bloomberg to respond in kind.

00:15:49.040 And when Mike Bloomberg responds in kind, he looks degraded.

00:15:54.080 He looks like he's down in the dirt with Trump.

00:15:56.740 The attack works.

00:15:57.960 Trump did this so successfully to virtually every Republican in 2016.

00:16:04.460 Okay.

00:16:04.740 Mike Bloomberg.

00:16:05.560 Trump calls Bloomberg short.

00:16:07.120 Bloomberg takes the bait and totally screwed up the answer. 0.99

00:16:09.840 Bloomberg spokesman said, quote, Trump is a pathological liar who lies about everything. 1.00

00:16:14.580 His fake hair, his obesity, and his spray-on tan. 1.00

00:16:18.720 All right.

00:16:19.400 Bloomberg just lost all the moral high ground.

00:16:21.620 Bloomberg just got right down in the muck with Trump.

00:16:25.480 The GOP candidates in 2016 did the same thing.

00:16:29.800 They took Trump's bait and they degraded themselves.

00:16:32.600 The whole argument that they were making, take someone like Jeb Bush.

00:16:36.320 Jeb Bush made this pitch, which was Donald Trump is juvenile. 0.99

00:16:39.880 He's cruel. 0.98

00:16:41.040 He's crude. 0.99

00:16:41.920 He's undignified. 1.00

00:16:43.720 He's disgusting. 0.99

00:16:44.960 Right now, I, Jeb Bush, I am this serious, mature, dignified person. 0.99

00:16:49.400 Okay.

00:16:49.940 They could have made that argument, except when Bush would degrade himself.

00:16:54.280 I remember one specific moment, one specific moment, 2016.

00:16:58.960 Jeb said something that was a little more Trumpy and Trump laughed at it.

00:17:03.400 And Jeb said, yeah, was that high energy enough for you, Donald?

00:17:06.000 And Donald said, yeah, pretty good.

00:17:07.300 And Donald put his hand out low by his side as if to get a low five.

00:17:12.680 And Jeb Bush, like he had just gotten the approval of the bully on the playground,

00:17:16.800 gets so excited, he kind of jumps up a little and he smacks Trump's hand with a high five.

00:17:21.160 And right there, Jeb lost his whole campaign.

00:17:23.640 And he lost his whole campaign because the only reason to vote for Jeb Bush

00:17:28.000 is that he is the boring, mature, serious adult.

00:17:32.060 And Donald Trump baited him into looking more childish than he.

00:17:36.640 Another example of this, Marco Rubio.

00:17:39.300 Donald Trump starts calling all the candidates' names and little Marco,

00:17:44.380 lion Ted, low energy Jeb.

00:17:47.380 And Marco Rubio was getting irritated by this, but he was trying to maintain that dignity.

00:17:51.560 He was trying to maintain those talking points, the memorized 30-second speech,

00:17:55.840 as Chris Christie called it.

00:17:56.980 And then when he was getting desperate toward the end of the primary race, Rubio wanted to mix it up.

00:18:02.100 So he starts taunting Donald Trump like he was Don Rickles, like he was doing an insult comedy routine.

00:18:08.760 He made fun of Trump's hand size, insinuating that another part of Donald Trump's anatomy was a little small.

00:18:14.960 He started making fun of his physicality and Marco fell apart because now all of a sudden you didn't just have one crude,

00:18:24.620 undignified candidate and one serious foreign policy establishment guy. 0.95

00:18:30.420 You had two undignified, childish candidates. 0.80

00:18:33.080 And if you're going to pick one of them, you're obviously going to pick Trump. 0.96

00:18:36.620 Because at least Trump is authentic.

00:18:38.140 He's not trying to do something else.

00:18:39.620 I think Donald Trump actually made fun of him.

00:18:41.000 He said, yeah, Rubio was out there doing his Rickles routine, but it's not going to work.

00:18:44.560 You know, you can't out-Trump Trump.

00:18:47.220 That's what happened here.

00:18:48.120 I think there are a lot of moderate people, especially moderate Democrats, who would really like Mike Bloomberg.

00:18:56.380 Very successful guy, very moderate, very acceptable. 1.00

00:19:00.000 And yet if Bloomberg is going to go out there and be like, hey, Donald, you're fat and ugly and stupid, ha, ha, ha, then all right. 1.00

00:19:06.100 If you've got two brash, tough-talking New Yorkers who are undignified, give me Trump. 1.00

00:19:10.880 At least Trump has a good track record, right?

00:19:13.180 He's got a great economy, great foreign policy.

00:19:15.420 He's, I'll take the devil I know rather than the devil that I don't.

00:19:20.320 So notice how Trump goes after the other candidates compared to Mike Bloomberg.

00:19:28.200 He doesn't go after Bloomberg on issues.

00:19:31.060 He goes after Bernie on issues.

00:19:32.340 We'll see that in a second.

00:19:33.300 He doesn't go after Bloomberg on guns because President Trump knows that guns are a tricky issue, right?

00:19:39.760 He knows the lesson that Mike Bloomberg doesn't know.

00:19:42.180 Mike Bloomberg decides to lead during the Super Bowl everybody's watching by talking about how he hates your guns and he's going to take your Second Amendment rights away.

00:19:48.800 It's immediately going to alienate half the audience.

00:19:51.120 Trump doesn't do that, even though Trump has the opposite position on guns, right?

00:19:54.560 Trump says, I'm going to defend your Second Amendment.

00:19:56.780 But he knows if he airs that ad, he's going to alienate half the audience.

00:20:00.900 If he goes after Bloomberg on his signature issue, guns are going to lose half the audience.

00:20:04.480 So instead, he calls him short, he calls him weak, and in the process of that, he makes Mike Bloomberg degrade himself.

00:20:10.720 Much smarter strategy.

00:20:12.800 He saved the issue attacks in that same pre-Super Bowl interview for Bernie Sanders.

00:20:17.640 Here he is.

00:20:18.680 Bernie Sanders.

00:20:20.580 Well, I think he's a communist.

00:20:22.220 I mean, you know, look, I think of communism when I think of Bernie.

00:20:24.980 Now, you could say socialist, but did they get married in Moscow?

00:20:29.000 And that's wonderful.

00:20:29.940 Moscow's wonderful.

00:20:30.660 Might have been the honeymoon.

00:20:31.360 You don't think necessarily, well, whatever, but you don't necessarily think in terms of marriage, Moscow.

00:20:37.640 And it's wonderful.

00:20:38.920 I'm not knocking it, but I think of Bernie sort of as a socialist, but far beyond a socialist.

00:20:45.020 There's the issue attack.

00:20:46.360 There's the ideological attack.

00:20:48.340 Bloomberg is short and weak, and he's going to irritate Bloomberg so much that he's going to implode.

00:20:53.380 Bernie is a communist. 0.90

00:20:54.580 He doesn't call Bernie an old, crazy-haired, wild man, right? 0.90

00:20:58.540 He calls him a communist. 0.93

00:20:59.880 Goes after what he thinks.

00:21:01.360 As he should, because Bernie is a communist.

00:21:05.000 Trump, as always, is painting this picture.

00:21:07.060 He got married in Moscow.

00:21:09.220 And then you hear, well, he didn't get married in Moscow.

00:21:12.120 He did his honeymoon in Moscow.

00:21:14.780 Yeah, honeymoon, marriage, whatever.

00:21:16.180 The guy loves Moscow.

00:21:17.280 Okay, and Moscow's a fine place, but communist.

00:21:19.680 And you're just getting this image of Bernie so excited.

00:21:22.140 He loves the Soviet Union so much that he's getting married there.

00:21:25.020 He's honeymooning there.

00:21:27.440 Bernie is surging.

00:21:28.480 We're going to see tonight if Bernie's support is real, because Bernie is now at the top of the heap in Iowa.

00:21:34.420 Now, if Bernie doesn't win in Iowa, it's a whole new race.

00:21:37.780 If Bernie does win in Iowa, if he's got momentum into New Hampshire, that is a serious problem for the establishment.

00:21:43.960 If Joe Biden does collapse tonight in Iowa and later in New Hampshire, Bloomberg could be the guy.

00:21:51.000 He's got the money.

00:21:52.440 He's got the media, right?

00:21:53.900 He actually has a media outlet called Bloomberg.

00:21:56.580 His chief competition for this moderate lane would be Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Senator Amy Klobuchar.

00:22:03.400 Neither are ready for prime time.

00:22:05.660 The Democratic establishment is so nervous about this.

00:22:09.160 John Kerry, former secretary of state and failed presidential candidate in 2004, was overheard at a Des Moines hotel just over the weekend, suggesting that he might run for president.

00:22:19.280 John Kerry got clobbered in 2004.

00:22:23.860 Now, he's denied this.

00:22:25.560 He actually tweeted out a very profane quote.

00:22:31.820 I don't know how else to put it.

00:22:33.000 It was clearly a mistake that he tweeted it out.

00:22:34.920 He deleted it later, but he wrote, quote,

00:22:36.360 Then he deleted that because clearly someone drafted it up and jokingly wrote effing, right, instead of categorically, and then they tweeted that out.

00:22:57.720 Think about how desperate the Democrats must be for John Kerry to have an opening in this race. 0.78

00:23:07.420 Think about how pathetic that is. 0.97

00:23:09.740 John Kerry got clobbered by George W. Bush 16 years ago. 0.99

00:23:16.060 16 years ago.

00:23:17.440 This would be like if in 2012 the Republican Party was in such disarray that they got Bob Dole to run again.

00:23:28.980 Bob Dole ran, got the nomination in 1996, lost to Bill Clinton.

00:23:33.600 It would be like if 16 years later, 2012, he ran for president again.

00:23:38.600 We didn't exactly have a winner in 2012.

00:23:40.440 We had Mitt freaking Romney.

00:23:42.540 But still, at least we had a kind of new candidate, a younger candidate.

00:23:45.900 It would be absurd if the party were in such bad shape that Bob Dole were running again in 2012.

00:23:51.640 You'd be in immense trouble.

00:23:53.280 And that is what we're seeing here among the Democrats.

00:23:56.900 So I think in so much as there was politics in the Super Bowl, the Republicans did much better.

00:24:04.560 They just played it much smarter.

00:24:06.500 Other than that, the Super Bowl was not terribly political.

00:24:08.960 They made a big point of this because they're finally seeing their ratings come back after years of falling apart.

00:24:14.940 Post Colin Kaepernick.

00:24:16.800 And they just didn't want to ruin it.

00:24:17.960 There was one ad that the Super Bowl rejected that was so, so offensive, so absurd that they just dismissed it outright.

00:24:26.860 That was from PETA. 0.96

00:24:28.180 It was PETA comparing black people to animals. 0.96

00:24:31.300 We will get to that in a second. 0.91

00:24:32.560 First, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:24:37.680 And sorry, guys, because you're going to miss my halftime show thoughts.

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00:26:10.240 Before we get to the halftime show, which is visually rather interesting,

00:26:14.520 I've got to talk about this ad that the Super Bowl and the NFL rejected.

00:26:20.540 This was an ad by PETA comparing black people to animals. 0.92

00:26:27.120 Take a listen. 0.97

00:26:29.540 I will narrate you through this ad.

00:26:33.500 So, you've got a little bumblebee flying, and then the animals start kneeling.

00:26:39.980 You can see a little bear.

00:26:41.980 Bear standing up, then the bear kneels down.

00:26:44.520 A little fish swimming in the water.

00:26:46.820 The fish kneels down.

00:26:50.300 Wolves, foxes, they take a knee. 0.99

00:26:54.420 A disgusting tarantula and a gross little rat kneel down. 0.99

00:26:59.620 Sheepdog kneels down. 1.00

00:27:02.900 Little pig kneels down. 0.74

00:27:05.000 You can hear this star-spangled banner in the background. 0.99

00:27:07.380 Reminds you of that Colin Kaepernick protest.

00:27:12.900 All the animals kneeling down.

00:27:15.220 Now, the bald eagle itself is kneeling down.

00:27:21.920 Symbol of America.

00:27:23.840 And the final line is hashtag end speciesism.

00:27:30.340 So, this is so bonkers.

00:27:34.280 I've seen PETA make this argument before. 1.00

00:27:37.080 I remember I saw it in college.

00:27:39.120 They had a PETA protest in college, and they had these big billboards.

00:27:42.260 And it showed African chattel slavery, like full-on African men in chains in the 19th century.

00:27:50.100 And then cows on a farm.

00:27:53.500 And they were saying, you know, see, when you really think about it, aren't those the same thing? 0.99

00:27:58.240 And in order for those to be the same thing, then black people have to be animals. 1.00

00:28:01.480 Those have to be the same thing. 0.98

00:28:02.500 And I remember standing there with several of my friends, most of whom were liberal, by the way.

00:28:07.060 And we were just looking at it like, have you people lost your minds?

00:28:11.080 Do you understand how horribly offensive this is?

00:28:14.240 Now, from PETA's perspective, they don't think it's offensive. 0.95

00:28:16.980 Any reasonable person would look at that and say, hey, you're calling black people animals. 0.63

00:28:20.480 Like, maybe don't do that. 0.94

00:28:21.660 But from PETA's perspective, because they like animals much more than people,

00:28:25.840 they're saying, no, no, we're just saying all species are the same.

00:28:30.060 And so, they all need to be treated exactly the same way.

00:28:33.420 That's what they're drawing a direct comparison between racism,

00:28:37.400 which was ostensibly the purpose of the flag-kneeling Colin Kaepernick protest,

00:28:41.560 and speciesism.

00:28:45.100 In other words, we shouldn't draw any distinctions between races because we're all children of God.

00:28:51.440 And likewise, we shouldn't draw any distinction between human beings and spiders

00:28:56.360 because we're all the same thing, really, when you think about it.

00:29:00.480 Now, this isn't true at all.

00:29:02.280 I mean, the reason that we treat animals differently than human beings

00:29:06.060 is because human beings have will and intellect and animals do not.

00:29:12.600 This is the same reason, by the way, that we don't arrest a fox if a little fox rapes another fox in the wild.

00:29:20.740 Animals rape each other all the time, right? 0.97

00:29:23.080 But it's not really rape because animals don't have free will and intellect.

00:29:27.680 So, it's not like they're violating some moral law that they're aware of.

00:29:30.640 They have a conscience telling them to act in accordance with the transcendent moral order,

00:29:35.000 and then they decide to sin by transgressing that.

00:29:37.480 No.

00:29:37.860 Do we arrest a wolf for eating another animal?

00:29:40.760 No.

00:29:42.180 Do we charge the bear with murder against the salmon?

00:29:46.160 No, of course not, because animals are different than people.

00:29:50.120 PETA couldn't see it that way.

00:29:51.320 I think the NFL very wisely saw the blowback that they would get from that ad.

00:29:55.600 PETA incredibly released it on their own, and they're rightly getting blowback for that as well.

00:30:04.400 Absolute craziness.

00:30:05.520 But good on the NFL, because the NFL has saw that over the past two years,

00:30:11.840 since they cut out the flag kneeling, they got past Colin Kaepernick,

00:30:14.880 their ratings started to creep back up.

00:30:17.120 When Colin Kaepernick protested the American flag on TV,

00:30:20.460 and then a whole bunch of other NFL players started to protest the flag,

00:30:22.880 the NFL ratings tanked.

00:30:26.480 All the defenders of Kaepernick, all of the leftists said,

00:30:29.160 oh, they're only tanking because people aren't watching as much TV.

00:30:33.520 It's a coincidence.

00:30:34.740 It's not about the flag protest.

00:30:36.280 Well, okay, then how do you explain the NFL ratings coming back in 2018, 2019,

00:30:43.600 ticking up 5% year over year?

00:30:45.540 It's because they got rid of that.

00:30:46.700 So the NFL wised up.

00:30:47.680 They even had a tribute to the American flag before the game.

00:30:52.880 I walked through a county courthouse square on a park bench,

00:30:58.280 an old man was sitting there.

00:31:00.740 I said, your old courthouse is kind of run down.

00:31:03.700 He said, no, it'll do for our little town.

00:31:07.580 I said, your old flagpole has leaned a little bit,

00:31:11.060 and that's a ragged old flag you got hanging on it.

00:31:14.560 He said, have a seat.

00:31:16.020 And I said, Al, is this the first time you've been to our little town?

00:31:21.660 I said, I think it is.

00:31:23.360 He said, I don't like to brag, but we're kind of proud of that ragged old flag.

00:31:29.780 Well, that sure is a different tune from what we've been hearing from the NFL the last few years.

00:31:37.620 Right?

00:31:37.960 The last few years have been the American flag is awful.

00:31:41.020 We've got to protest it.

00:31:42.120 We're going to protest the star-spangled banner.

00:31:43.860 We're going to protest the symbol of our country.

00:31:45.620 Colin Kaepernick protesting a flag from the Revolutionary War,

00:31:48.640 long before we had police departments and alleged police brutality.

00:31:53.000 Now, all of a sudden, we're getting the most sentimental pro-America flag wave,

00:31:58.900 and I'm proud of that ragged old flag.

00:32:01.000 Might as well have George Cohan over there marching, saying it's a grand old flag.

00:32:05.040 It's a high-flying flag.

00:32:07.140 Now, what this teaches us is actually very hopeful.

00:32:12.820 It's that you can turn things around.

00:32:15.680 You can make a comeback.

00:32:17.560 It's not over until it's over, whether that's in sports, whether that's in politics,

00:32:22.580 whether it's for our country.

00:32:24.380 The Chiefs were losing the game yesterday, and then at the very end of the game,

00:32:27.440 they turned it around and they won.

00:32:29.320 President Trump was losing the game in 2016.

00:32:31.940 99% chance Hillary was going to win, and then guess what? 1.00

00:32:35.160 We won.

00:32:35.980 Looked like we were careening into leftist decay, and then turned it all around.

00:32:40.260 The NFL was completely collapsing.

00:32:41.960 They were in free fall.

00:32:43.180 And then they just got rid of all their nonsense, this anti-American stuff,

00:32:47.420 started waving an American flag every so often,

00:32:49.540 realized that sports always have something to do with national unity, national loyalty,

00:32:54.400 brought that back.

00:32:55.160 And guess what?

00:32:55.600 They turned that around as well.

00:32:58.420 That's an important thing for us to remember as we lament our culture falling apart,

00:33:02.220 our politics falling apart, our government falling apart.

00:33:05.620 You can turn it around.

00:33:07.720 They were going to impeach Trump, remember?

00:33:09.840 They impeached Trump.

00:33:11.120 Then they weren't going to kick him out of office.

00:33:13.860 They didn't have the votes for that.

00:33:14.760 But they were going to drag this out for months and months and months.

00:33:16.600 And guess what happened?

00:33:17.740 At the very end, a few Republican senators changed their mind,

00:33:21.340 and we got the end of impeachment, which we'll get to in a second.

00:33:25.040 But before we move on from the Super Bowl, I do want to just mention this halftime show,

00:33:28.160 which is getting a lot of traction around.

00:33:30.500 This involved Shakira and J-Lo.

00:33:34.140 You can pretty much sum the halftime show up in two seconds.

00:33:37.160 Here it is.

00:33:42.640 There it is.

00:33:43.320 It's just Shakira, Shakira and J-Lo shaking their moneymakers.

00:33:49.180 That was the halftime show.

00:33:51.340 Look, not the worst halftime show in the world.

00:33:53.200 I'll take it over Nickelback.

00:33:54.600 But it also showed us something about art and about culture.

00:33:59.860 This whole show, especially the J-Lo side of it, was explicitly pornographic. 0.96

00:34:04.620 It involved a stripper pole, grinding, crotch grabbing, some rope was involved. 1.00

00:34:09.360 Both Shakira and J-Lo are incredibly skilled dancers and performers. 0.83

00:34:16.160 They're incredibly hot.

00:34:18.620 They're just, it's unbelievable.

00:34:20.180 J-Lo is, I think, 50 years old now.

00:34:23.480 Shakira is 43.

00:34:25.720 They were moving like they were teenagers.

00:34:28.580 I mean, they're just incredibly skilled performers.

00:34:31.580 And yet, the show wasn't that sexy.

00:34:35.040 Even though it was all about sex, it still wasn't that sexy.

00:34:38.280 It reminded me that pornographic is actually the opposite of sexy.

00:34:45.000 It seems like they would be the same thing, but they're actually opposites.

00:34:48.140 And I'll give you an example.

00:34:49.540 I was in Cuba a couple years ago.

00:34:51.360 And we went to one of these old-timey Cuban shows, kind of the Ricky Ricardo stuff, you

00:34:55.080 know, where the women come out in the big costumes and they're kind of moving their hips. 1.00

00:34:57.980 And they're not actually showing you that much of their body.

00:35:01.380 But the way that they're moving, the things that they're slightly revealing and then putting

00:35:05.960 back away, create sexiness. 1.00

00:35:11.120 Sexiness comes from what you're not showing as well.

00:35:15.000 It's the reason that a woman in a bikini is sexier than a woman who's completely naked 1.00

00:35:20.680 a lot of the time.

00:35:21.980 Why is that?

00:35:22.900 It's because when you just show everything, it's all out there.

00:35:27.060 In many ways, it's grotesque.

00:35:28.260 People generally don't all look that good naked.

00:35:31.380 But when you're hiding something, then your imagination is doing the work.

00:35:35.660 It's the reason why you never want to see the monster in the horror movie.

00:35:38.560 The minute you see the monster, it's all clear to you.

00:35:41.360 You don't have anything left to imagine or anything left to be excited about or anything

00:35:44.960 left to dread or any of that.

00:35:47.140 But when the monster is in the shadows, you can't.

00:35:49.240 Then your imagination is doing so much more work.

00:35:51.580 It's the reason that modern poetry is trash and older poetry that has constraints is good.

00:35:56.600 It's the reason that slam poetry is like the death of art because there's no limitation

00:36:01.720 on it.

00:36:02.060 There's nothing constraining it.

00:36:03.900 Whereas an Elizabethan sonnet has all of these rules that you've got to play within and the

00:36:08.360 constraints actually give much more creativity.

00:36:11.640 Our culture has become increasingly pornographic and much less sexy the whole time.

00:36:17.420 It's just a lesson, I think, for young people and performers to keep in mind is you need a limiting

00:36:26.020 principle in all walks of life.

00:36:28.720 If you just throw it all out there, if you just get so graphic and grotesque, then you're

00:36:34.380 actually losing a lot of what you're going for in the first place.

00:36:38.340 You've got to restrain yourself.

00:36:39.660 You've got to have some rules.

00:36:41.780 You've got to leave a little bit to the imagination because the imagination has much more power

00:36:47.700 than our limited physical bodies.

00:36:50.600 That was just my take on it.

00:36:51.760 I'm not saying, look, it could have been a worse halftime show.

00:36:54.180 I know a lot of conservatives are railing against the explicit nature of it.

00:36:59.960 Think of the children.

00:37:00.980 Oh, the children will be traumatized.

00:37:03.080 That's not my primary concern.

00:37:05.320 I mean, it's true.

00:37:05.900 You don't want kids to be seeing these very graphic things at a family sporting event.

00:37:10.720 But my concern is beyond the children.

00:37:13.740 My concern is just that it's actually not achieving what it says that it will achieve.

00:37:19.460 You know, that it's in the same way that the sexual revolution actually now means that fewer

00:37:24.700 people are having sex. 0.72

00:37:27.020 That now actually we're, it's having the opposite effect of what it said it was doing.

00:37:32.860 And that's so often the case with leftist cultural movements.

00:37:38.100 There was another huge comeback, which happened just after we went off air on Thursday, which

00:37:42.660 is that President Trump is about to be exonerated.

00:37:47.120 President Trump is almost certainly about to be acquitted in his impeachment trial.

00:37:53.600 There were four senators, four Republican senators who could have tanked this impeachment,

00:38:01.380 made it go drag on for weeks and weeks and weeks with more witnesses and John Bolton

00:38:05.220 testifying and Hunter Biden testifying and the whistleblower testifying and Adam Schiff

00:38:08.820 testifying, or they could have all ended it.

00:38:12.200 I, you know, I'm doing this show with Senator Ted Cruz called Verdict with Ted Cruz and he

00:38:17.660 comes from the Capitol each night, comes on over and we talk about what happened in impeachment.

00:38:21.740 So we had been chatting the night before this, this vote last week and he said, oh yeah,

00:38:27.720 it's probably going to drag on.

00:38:29.040 It looks like we're going to get some witnesses.

00:38:30.520 We'll see if we can move some senators, four senators here, Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, 1.00

00:38:36.940 Lisa Murkowski, and Lamar Alexander.

00:38:39.480 Those were the four Republicans had about 47 votes.

00:38:44.360 They needed three of those.

00:38:46.540 They needed three people to flip or I'm sorry, rather the Democrats needed, needed three or

00:38:52.520 four people to flip.

00:38:53.480 And then they could have dragged out this impeachment question. 0.93

00:38:56.760 If they only got three people to flip, then we would have had a 50, 50 vote on more witnesses.

00:39:02.080 We don't know how that would have resolved.

00:39:04.020 The chief justice would have been dragged into it any way he chose whether to vote or to not

00:39:08.840 to vote or to let the motion die.

00:39:10.580 It would have created a real constitutional problem.

00:39:13.360 So they were going to try to drag out these votes.

00:39:18.300 Now, what happened?

00:39:19.500 Mitt Romney and Susan Collins both said they were going to vote for more witnesses.

00:39:23.280 So the Democrats just needed to get one more to make it to 50, 50 or two more to make it to 51, 49.

00:39:30.180 The other two were Lisa Murkowski and Lamar Alexander.

00:39:33.680 Lisa Murkowski is an independent.

00:39:35.200 She's a moderate from Alaska.

00:39:36.580 It's a purple state.

00:39:37.460 She had to go home and face her constituents.

00:39:42.720 Lamar Alexander was retiring.

00:39:44.420 So he actually didn't have that constituent problem.

00:39:47.300 Lamar Alexander, though, as Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator Cruz were telling me the

00:39:51.900 other night on the Verdict podcast, Lamar Alexander really cares about the institution of the Senate.

00:39:57.100 He didn't want to see the institution of the Senate lose respect and credibility.

00:40:00.660 Now, when, in particular, Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz were trying to work the room and try

00:40:07.840 to work the senators and get them to come over and vote against witnesses, they had to use

00:40:12.280 different tactics.

00:40:13.900 They had to convince Senator Murkowski that it was in her interest to go in, vote against

00:40:21.440 witnesses, and that that would help her with her constituents.

00:40:26.040 They had to convince Senator Alexander that it would hurt the credibility of the U.S.

00:40:31.000 Senate if he voted for more witnesses.

00:40:34.700 Those are totally different lines of attack.

00:40:38.220 They had to know that Mitt Romney and Susan Collins were lost causes.

00:40:42.160 And Susan Collins, again, purple state, she's in an election year, you can kind of understand

00:40:46.000 it.

00:40:46.960 Mitt Romney has no excuse. 1.00

00:40:48.300 He's just a jerk. 1.00

00:40:49.460 He's just an absolute jerk. 1.00

00:40:51.260 He's in a very conservative state of Utah, and he's still a jerk. 1.00

00:40:54.620 But even his jerk vote tells us something about this process, which is that the individuals 1.00

00:41:01.360 matter. 0.99

00:41:02.380 It's the lesson I've learned most on the Verdict podcast with Senator Cruz.

00:41:06.400 We think that going into these impeachment proceedings, everything is preplanned.

00:41:11.480 Everything is scripted.

00:41:12.480 Nothing happens in real time.

00:41:13.960 It does.

00:41:15.700 The left tells us in history, individuals don't matter.

00:41:18.600 It's all just big trends.

00:41:19.780 It's all going to play out inevitably.

00:41:21.160 We don't really have free will.

00:41:23.060 We do.

00:41:23.520 The individuals do matter.

00:41:26.140 If Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham had not been trying to persuade Lisa Murkowski and Lamar

00:41:30.640 Alexander, then very likely we would have witnesses this impeachment trial would be dragging

00:41:34.500 on.

00:41:36.080 If Mitt Romney didn't hate Donald Trump, and if Donald Trump hadn't been kind of mean to

00:41:40.480 Mitt Romney, and if Mitt Romney, frankly, hadn't started it, then Romney very likely would

00:41:46.520 have voted to acquit President Trump, would have voted against further witnesses, wouldn't

00:41:51.040 have even had to worry about this other stuff.

00:41:52.440 The individuals here are really important.

00:41:56.680 They're really important to politics.

00:41:58.060 And that, I guess that kind of plays in with the whole theme of the day, which is making

00:42:01.920 a comeback, which is that an individual really can make a difference.

00:42:04.820 And you really can change the course of the game, the course of the trial, and the course

00:42:09.440 of history.

00:42:10.000 So what happens now?

00:42:11.440 Democrats are going to try to derail this.

00:42:13.040 We had the vote last week against more witnesses that, for all intents and purposes, ended the

00:42:19.580 discussion.

00:42:20.280 Now you're going to have some proceedings this week.

00:42:22.720 And then on Wednesday of this week, you're going to have the final vote of whether to

00:42:26.640 convict President Trump and remove him from office and prevent him from running in November,

00:42:31.280 because if a president's been impeached and removed, he can't run for office again.

00:42:34.800 Or are they going to vote to acquit and say that he's not guilty?

00:42:40.680 It almost certainly will be the latter.

00:42:43.760 There's no evidence that Trump committed any crime.

00:42:46.160 The Democrats in the House aren't even charging him with a crime.

00:42:49.200 So the Democrats will try to derail it.

00:42:52.680 The Senate will try, will probably vote to acquit.

00:42:56.260 And then I think the Democrats will try to impeach him again.

00:43:01.540 They can impeach him again.

00:43:02.760 They can impeach him for something else.

00:43:03.940 They didn't charge him with a crime this time.

00:43:05.220 They probably won't charge him with a crime next time.

00:43:06.940 But I think they will vote or at least attempt to impeach him again.

00:43:12.160 Why?

00:43:14.040 Because this is the first time we've ever had a fully partisan impeachment in American history.

00:43:18.080 And if it's a fully partisan impeachment, and then it's a, there's actually a bipartisan movement against impeachment.

00:43:26.900 But if it's fully partisan, they'll just keep doing it.

00:43:29.020 Because it doesn't matter if Trump commits a crime or not.

00:43:31.060 They're just going to vote for it.

00:43:32.500 Joni Ernst, Republican senator, thinks the same thing.

00:43:35.360 She said, quote, I think this door of impeachable whatever has been opened.

00:43:38.860 Joe Biden should be very careful what he's asking for.

00:43:42.860 Because, you know, we can have a situation where if it should ever be President Biden,

00:43:46.900 that immediately people, right the day after he would be elected, would be saying,

00:43:51.120 well, we're going to impeach him.

00:43:52.640 We might be in the era of impeachment, as one of President Trump's lawyers, Ken Starr, said during the arguments.

00:44:00.840 We might now be in a position where impeachment is just a regular tool of partisan politics.

00:44:06.120 That's a sad situation to be in.

00:44:09.580 But the Democrats started it.

00:44:11.260 We can't unilaterally disarm.

00:44:14.140 They could change it.

00:44:15.320 Individuals matter in politics.

00:44:16.460 But they need to show that they can change it.

00:44:18.120 One way that they could do it would be during this Senate vote on Wednesday,

00:44:21.960 if some Democrats vote to acquit the president, if they make this a bipartisan acquittal,

00:44:29.140 if they do that, then that might go a long way toward ending this age of impeachment before it really begins, one can hope.

00:44:37.120 Before we go, got to talk about another huge comeback.

00:44:40.060 That would be Brexit. 0.79

00:44:41.740 Brexit has officially happened.

00:44:43.640 Britain has officially left the European Union.

00:44:46.420 Are you okay?

00:44:50.300 Are you alive?

00:44:51.800 Has there been mass death, mass starvation?

00:44:55.960 No, it's fine.

00:44:57.200 Everything is fine.

00:44:58.120 They told us it would be awful, and now it's fine.

00:45:01.280 They told us we would die.

00:45:02.300 Everybody's okay.

00:45:03.380 We're already obviously dead from tax cuts and the repeal of net neutrality,

00:45:06.840 but we were all really supposed to die from Brexit, right?

00:45:10.220 Except it didn't happen.

00:45:11.240 Everything's fine.

00:45:11.940 And the most telling headline is from the New York Times.

00:45:15.480 New York Times posted yesterday, quote,

00:45:18.820 What if Brexit works?

00:45:21.600 Britain is remaking itself again.

00:45:23.500 The shape of its society and economy and its place in the world are very much up for grabs.

00:45:27.420 Britain's departure from the EU on Friday drew a mournful reaction

00:45:30.400 for many people who have long viewed Brexit as consigning their country,

00:45:33.920 once the vanguard of Europe, to a future of economic mediocrity and geopolitical irrelevance.

00:45:39.700 But there are many others who view Brexit as a day of liberation,

00:45:42.260 when Britain, unshackled from the bureaucracy of Brussels,

00:45:45.200 will stride into a future of economic innovation and vigorous, clear-eyed politics,

00:45:50.660 a moment of national renewal.

00:45:53.960 Disruptive change can be beneficial for a country, said Tony Travers, a professor of politics.

00:45:59.200 That is, in a sense, what Brexit has accomplished.

00:46:02.860 After three and a half years of debate, the question, what if it works?

00:46:07.940 We had been told for certain it won't work.

00:46:10.600 We had been told that if Trump was elected, we'd all die.

00:46:13.240 The economy would collapse.

00:46:14.340 We'd go into World War III.

00:46:15.720 It'd be nuclear holocaust. 0.95

00:46:17.800 We had been told Brexit would kill us all, right?

00:46:22.300 And then it did not happen.

00:46:24.660 They were wrong.

00:46:25.620 There's a headline from the New Statesman in June of 2016.

00:46:28.940 The headline was, calm down, Trump won't be president, and Britain won't leave the EU.

00:46:32.680 They have insisted, particularly the progressives, the left,

00:46:37.900 that there is just a path in the future.

00:46:41.040 We are heading toward progress.

00:46:42.500 What you want, what you desire, what you think about does not matter.

00:46:46.020 What you individuals do does not matter.

00:46:48.280 History is marching inevitably toward progress.

00:46:50.960 It's in the very name progressive.

00:46:52.680 And William F. Buckley Jr., when he started National Review in the first issue,

00:46:56.320 he said a conservative is one who stands athwart history yelling, stop.

00:47:01.000 And individuals have done that before.

00:47:03.180 They've turned it all around.

00:47:04.700 They've come from behind.

00:47:06.420 In the game, in politics, in the impeachment trial, in the history of the world,

00:47:11.920 we're seeing that happen over and over and over.

00:47:13.860 And it does appear that we are at a period of renewal.

00:47:16.600 We are at the dawn of something new.

00:47:18.460 Whether that something new will turn out well or turn out poorly is not written in stone.

00:47:22.980 It's not inevitable.

00:47:24.100 The individuals will matter.

00:47:25.860 We have a chance to come from behind, but we've got to take that chance.

00:47:29.280 All right, that's our show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 03, 2020

Ep. 488 - The Comeback Kids

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